Elements of the Art of Dyeing with a Description of the Art of Bleaching By Oxmuriatic Acid (2 Volume set)
London: For Thomas Egg; Simkin & Marshall, R. Griffin & Co;, 1824. Octavo. Item #028654
In two volumes. Half-titles, 408 and 453pp., with the notes to the first and second volume are found in the second volume. Berthollet was a member of the circle of Lavoiser and helped in the development of a chemical nomenclasture that was applicable and derived from the state of chemistry at the end of the 18th century. The present work is a systematic study and scientific discussion of the nature of dyeing with nine plates (four of which are folding). The period 1825-1829 was a period when several New England textile companies were attempting the first large-scale textile printing in the United States but the major source was still the British printing technology. This work was now available in a translated edition with plates not in the French original. The English manufacturers sent agents to see how quickly their American counterparts were advancing and they realized it was advancing quicker than they had realized as the techniques for dying cloth were now first rate (with the remnants being desired for little girls to design and dress their dolls). Andrew Ure not only translated this edition by developing the notes and engravings which were now available in this second edition, making available techniques that had existed in antiquirty but now with the development of machine made quality, beautiful textiles became widely available in America and frustrating to their British competitors. An ex-library copy with their label to front pastedown and embossed stamp to title pages, some leaves unopened, bound in original 1/4 cloth over boards, paper spine labels, some soiliing to boards. A very good set.
Price: $765.00